Zenzerian

Setting:
In Terranigma, the Earth is portrayed as a hollow sphere that has both an external and internal face. Since the beginning of the Earth, the external Lightside, the overworld, stood for growth whereas the internal Darkside, the underworld, represented decline. Over the course of billions of years, these two forces came to be called Good and Evil. Regardless of the inner antagonism, rapid progress took root and primitive life forms evolved to plants, animals and humans. Technology and industry revolutionized the evolution, but the fight between Good and Evil was still taking place, more fiercely than ever. The conflict culminated in a final battle at the southernmost point of the overworld. However, neither of the two forces were victorious. The continents of the overworld submerged into the ocean and the underworld was sealed away.

Story:
At the beginning of the first chapter of the game, "The outset", Ark is a troublemaker of a boy who lives in Crysta (クリスタルホルム, Crystalholm?), the only village in the underworld. After opening a door he was told not to enter and touching a mysterious box inside, every citizen in the village is frozen. The only person not affected by the curse, the Elder of Crysta, guides him to resurrect the continents of the world in order to unfreeze the people. A way out of his hometown appears, and for the first time ever a human being leaves Crysta to explore the underworld which is portrayed as a frozen wasteland of imposing crystal mountains, crossed by rivers of magma. He conquers the trials of the five towers - each representing one continent - and revives the mainland of the Earth. Upon returning to his hometown, the Elder instructs him to travel to the overworld and to resurrect all living beings. With a heavy heart, Ark says goodbye to his lifelong devoted friend Elle and sets out to the Lightside.

In the second chapter, "Resurrection of the world", having crossed a dimensional crevasse that closed itself after his appearance on the overworld, Ark is confronted with the barren land that once was the Earth's surface. His first task is to free the giant tree Ra from the parasite he is afflicted with. This causes the resurrection of all plants in the world resulting in Ark's being able to cross the mountains of Guyana. He travels further into the world, reviving birds, the wind, animals and eventually mankind.

In the third chapter, "Resurrection of the genius", the Elder appears to Ark in a dream and tells him to keep helping humankind grow, as the world is still in the fledgling stages. He continues his journey, traveling and expanding cities, assisting with the invention of groundbreaking technologies and ultimately, freeing the ingenious Beruga from his sleep in a cryogenic chamber. The professor provides Ark with an insight into his personal image of the paradise. He envisions a perfect world by killing all insignificant life with a virus named Asmodeus and turning everyone else into immortal beings. Ark tries to attack Beruga after this revealing twist but is stopped by robots, injuring him heavily.

The Elder once again appears to him, saying that his mission is fulfilled and he may now pass away. Ark realizes that he's been used by Evil to lead the power which created him to world domination. Just as he is about to die, Kumari, a wise human who watched the world's growth through reincarnation, teleports Ark out of Beruga's laboratory. He then instructs him to go search the five Starstones and to lay them at the grave at time's end in order to call the golden child. Ark obtains the stones one after another and sets them into skull statues at Dry Valley, the location at the South Pole where the final confrontation between Good and Evil once took place. This leads to the appearance of Ark's Lightside self, the person Evil - now given the name Dark Gaia - used to create Ark himself. He tells him that he's the legendary hero and then kills him.

However, in the fourth and final chapter, "Resurrection of the hero", Ark is reborn through the power of Good, Light Gaia, and departs to defeat Beruga. After having conquered the professor, he returns to the underworld to defeat Dark Gaia. The victory over that entity brings forth the destruction of the Darkside. In the end, however, a major purpose is served and Ark, although sealing what appears to be his own demise as well, realizes he and all of his loved ones are bound to meet again in future reincarnations. Thus he goes to sleep, after being told that he, as creator and defender, is what the outside world would call a "god". Ark's last dream pictures him as bird flying above the world he created, in an astonishing sequence that plays along with the game's final credits and a surprise end.

(No, I didn't write this, its from Wiki Terranigma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

With its beautiful graphics (for its time).....

Its HORRIBLE grammar......

and epic boss battles.......


It's part of a 4 game series:

1) Soul Blazer
2) Illusion of Gaia
3) Terranigma
4) Granstream Saga

I don't like to count the fourth one so let's call it a Trilogy.

Please tell me that someone else has played this and enjoyed it as much as I did.

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kubejunkie

Ive played this one before too.. and the 2 others.. never beat them as i played them on emulator so i change games quite a bit then but enjoyed it non the less. the story line pulled me in from the start so i play on it from time to time.. i never got past the tree in the second chapter tho.

Rawk

OMFG SOUL BLAZER HAD A SEQUEL!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

I'm way too out of it rofl. I learned to count by how many times i beat that game xD (not really).

Dude, i cant believe i never knew this >_<. It had more than A sequel it had friggin 3 (2 in Zenze's world)

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Zenzerian

Yup, sure did and all "3" of the games were AMAZING.

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Rawk

*leaves to find ROMs of the other 3*

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Zenzerian

Hahaha, I posted this up a long time ago. At least some one is interested now.

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Bullfrog Boxer

.....idk what it is but i want it......0_0 lol

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